Bustle



2 Sheets Sheet 1.

(No Model.)

H. H. TAYLOR.

BUSTLE.

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HENRY II. TAYLOR, OF BRIDGEPORT, CONNECTICUT.

BUSTLE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters PatentNo. 601,361, dated March 29, 1898. l Application filed November 26, 1897 Serial No. 659,875. (No model.)

T0 at whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, HENRY H. TAYLOR, a citizen of the United States,residingat Bridgeport, in the county of Fairfield and State of Connecticut, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Bustles; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.-

My invention relates to certain new and useful improvements in bustles and analogous devices such as are commonly used for the purpose of expanding or properly shaping dress-goods, and has for its objectto provide avery simple device of this description which shall at the same time be exceedingly light and durable.

With these ends in view my invention consists in certain details of construction, such as will be hereinafter more fully set forth, and then specifically be designated by the claims.

In the accompanying drawings, which form a part of this application, Figure 1 is a plan view showing a blank or block of wire-cloth cut on the bias, from which my improved bustle is constructed. Fig. 2 is a plan .view illustrating the first operation in the process of constructing my bustle and which consists in contracting the meshes of the wire-cloth at one edge and placing a stay-tape thereon. Fig. 3 is a perspective view which shows my improved bustle partially completed by doubling over the opposite edge of the blank with the corners thereof matching or coinciding with the corners of the contracted edge, the coinciding side edges as well as the stay-tape being secured by stitching. Fig. 4 is a plan of the completed bustle, and Fig. 5 a section at the line 66 a: of Fig. 4.

Similar numerals of reference denote like parts in the severalfigures of the drawings.

In the manufacture of b ustles or dress-goods expanders it is necessary that the completed article should properly throw out or shape the dress-goods and should at the same time yield resiliently, and in my present improvement I have taken advantage of the peculiar action of the component wires of wire-cloth when the latter is cut on the bias.

I first cut out a blank or block of wire-cloth onthe bias, as shown at Fig. 1, and then contract the wires atone edge (denoted by the numeral 1) andplace a stay-tape 2 upon the same, as shown at Fig. 2. The opposite edge 3 is then doubled over, so that the corners thereof match the corners of the contracted edge 1, which latter of course bring the lateral edges of the wire-cloth blank into coincidence and will cause a fullness to be thrown up, which I have denoted by the numeral 4. I then bi'nd these coinciding lateral edges with tapes 5 6, the stitches passing through these tapes and also through the stay-tape 2, and,finally,l bind the inner edges 1 3 together by a tape 7, so as to completely shape the bustle, as shownat Fig. 4:- The waist-tapes 8 Qmay be acontinuation of the tape 7,01 they may be attached to the bustle separately, as

maybe desired.

My improved bustle is exceedingly light and yields readily to pressure,and assumes its proper shape when such pressure is relieved.

If desired, the stay-tape may be secured to the contracted edge before the stitching of the lateral edges, although this is a mere matter of construction, and I do not wish to be limited in this respect.

I have heretofore described the method which I preferablyfollow in making my improved bustle; but this method may be departed from in several particulars, and my invention should not be narrowed to the employment of any special manner of arriving at the result aimed at.

The gist of my invention rests in the broad I idea of doubling over a piece of wire-cloth, so that the edges opposite the point of doubling will substantially coincide, and then firmly uniting these edges together after they have been. contracted by means of any suitable tape or binder. This contraction of the edges gives the'required fullness to the bustle, and whether I contract one edge first and then match its corners with the corners ofthe other edge and then finally contract this other edge and unite it to the first-named edge by a binder is perfectly immaterial so long as these edges are finally secured together in their contractedshape. Therefore it will of course be clear that the stay-tape is not necessary for the preservation of the shape of the completed article, since the tape 7 holds the contracted edges securely, and this stay-tape is merely a Very convenient means for primarily holding the contracted edge 1, so that the opposite edge 3, coinciding therewith,1n ay readily be secured thereto by the tape 7. The

- contracted edge 1 could be held in position by any suitable mechanical contrivance and the. corners of these edges -1 3 matched to throw up the fullness 4, and then these edges could be secured by the binder 7, which latter would of course prevent the meshes from spreading. I therefore do not wish to be limited to this tape as an element essential to the construction of my bustle.

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. A bustle made from wire-cloth cut on the bias and doubled with each of its opposing edges contracted and coinciding whereby the fullness is obtained, these coinciding edges as well as the lateral edges being secured together by binding-tapes, substantiallyas set forth.

2. A bustle made from wire-cloth out on the bias and doubled over until the edges opposing the point of folding coincide, said edges being contracted and secured together by a combined binder and waist-tape, the

coincidence and secured together in this condition, substantially as set forth.

5. A bustle composed of wire-cloth cut on the bias and doubled over, one edge opposing the point-of doubling being contracted and secured in this condition by a stay-tape While the other edge opposing said point is contracted and secured to the first-mentioned edge by any suitable binder, the lateral edges of the bustle being secured by tapes stitched thereto, substantially as set forth.

In testimony whereof I affiX my signature in presence of two witnesses.

HENRY II. TAYLOR.

Witnesses:

F. W. SMITH, Jr., M. T. LONGDEN. 

